Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-10-19
STATE, ST AND ELSEWHERE.
The Menaocino Fair opened yes,er,
day at Ukiah.

success, even without the races.
In 1880 the South had 10000 pubic
schools. 1t now has 81 ,5e3 The pro.
gress of popular education in that
section is gratifying
Dave O'Brien of Marysvine was ar.
rested yesterday with bottle of acid
with which he had threatened to dis
figure his faithful better half.
The city of Buenos Ayres, Argeu.
tine Republic, is about to adopt mod
ern sanitary methods, and has applied
for the sanitary code of Chicago as
guide
Colonel Mapleson, the once great
oneratic impressarlo. is now proVln
cial tourist IN Great Britain with
singing Company headed by Minnie
Hauk.
Cotton, San Bernardlnp Co., is full
of tramps, footpads and burglars. Two
men were knocked down and robbed
Monday night and robbed of $50 and
$40 respectively.
The Topoohlampo colonists are re
| ported TO be in starving condition.
They are subsisting on dried corn and
| brackish water, and relief is asked for
| them from abroad.
Pope Leo has received among his
Jubilee presents II colossal cheese,
large barrel of wine, four yards of
| fine linen from II poor servant, two
Tiger skins and an enormous sausage.
Berlin Socialists employed the other
day, for the first time. women TO dis,
tribute their pamphlets, and over So
600 were scattered around before the
police found cut what was going ON.
Articles of Incorporation for g-
gantic irrigatipe canal to be construct.
ed in the Central Rio Grande Valley
in New Mexico, were filed with the
Territorial Secretary, yesterday at
Santa Fe.
Monday petition for the appoint.
ment OF guardian for Edwin Ward
the Pasadena millionaire, on the
ground of insanity, was filed by Mrs.
Georgiana Ward in the office of the
Los Angeles County Clerk.
A dispatch from Nogales, A. r., de.
MES lllal there is any excitement in
thai Town over rich placer digginga in
the Blue Mountains. No water with.
in twenty or thirty miles of the local
ity prevents the successful working
of placers which are in the mountains
and known to be rich
The wife of Manuel Gomez, living
on San Antonio Creek, Sonoma Co,
| left her months old IN cradle last
Monday, attended by its little brother
| and went into the yard for some pur.
pose, when the little boy lighted Il
ndle and set fire to the baoy and
cradle. The mother rushed TO its
assistance, but the baby was so badly
| burned that 1t died yesterday.
Governor Waterman had The money
Ia the State Treasury counted and he
insisted that the seal to ever money
bag should be broken and the coin
counted, He kept the entire Board OF
! Examiners, the Clerk of The Board and
| his Private Secretnry husily at work
from 10 A. Nj. until u. NJ. yesterday.
The money was all there, however,
amounting to Sl100,00e and the
Governor gave all who assisted in the
count a fine dinner, -
| Sheriff Inlow of fuba county has
been nou fled by the attorney of the
| Chinese Consulate that he mnsi cease
working Chinese confined in the
County Jai. on the public roads. II
is claimed they are not criminals, and
the United States Courts will he asked
10 intervene ii the Sheriff persists in
obeying the ordinance recently passed
by the Board aI Supervisors OF that
county ordering the Jail inmates to be
worked ON p3blic streets.
The London Court Journal says that
al a dinner given recently by young
American millionaire, alter the host
had displayed large sums in bank
notes and many costly gems, " he gave
his leg a smart tap with a knife, when
it emitted sweet. soft, ringing tone,
which fell pleasantly on the ear, and
said, THAT my friends, is made of
virgin California gold, and the garter
ia of diamonds of the first water
This fact he verified as he rolled up
| his trousers"